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This study aims to compare the association between smartphone use and mental health by separating middle and high schoo. This national cross-sectional secondary study used data from the 20th (2024) Korea Youth Risk Behavior Survey(KYRBS). The respondents were 54,653 middle and high school students. Descriptive statistics, chi-square analysis and complex sample logistic regression analysis was performed using IBM SPSS Statistics 25.0. The results showed that middle school students who responded that they perceived stress as ‘much’ used smartphones (more than 6 hours per day) 1.316 times (p<.05) more than those who responded that they perceived stress as ‘little’ and who responded that they felt loneliness as ‘much’ used smartphones (more than 6 hours per day) 0.808 times (p<.001) more than ‘little’. Among high school students, those who answered ‘much’ to loneliness spent 0.781 times (p<.001) more time using their smartphones (more than 6 hours per day) than ‘little’. However, the perceived stress in high school was not statistically significant. This study results will provide basis information for the developing an intervention program to reduce smartphone use for healthy mental health in middle and high school students. Furthermore, tailored intervention program consideriong each school’s characteristic should be developed based on the community and schoo setting.